Roland Hansen:  

Here it is, more than 30 years later. I still live in Hanson. I've been living in the same house since August 1982. I studied Accounting in college and worked as an accountant for 17 years at a couple of different companies. I switched to IT 10 years ago. I love working with computers and should have gone into it from the beginning. 26 years in the same house, 12 years at one company and now 10 with my current employer, I guess I'm one of those people who don't relish change. I stick with the familiar even if it's unpleasant. There's safety in familiarity. I'm divorced (a long time ago, almost 18 years now) and have 1 son who's now 20 and studying IT in college. My parents are both still alive and living in Florida (although separately - divorced 27 years ago). My 2 brothers and 3 sisters are still alive and living in various locales across the US. Multiple nieces and nephews and several grand nieces and nephews. I've lost 2 nephews, 1 more than 20 years ago at just a few weeks old (SIDS), the other just a couple years ago in his mid twenties (Gunshot wound). It seems very strange to me that my younger brother is a grandfather. And it feels odd to be fast approaching 50. I think I'm getting nostalgic in my old age, which is probably why I'm filling all this stuff out. I'm in reasonably good health. Still have a full head of hair and just barely starting to get a little grey at the temples. No heart problems, no prescriptions, although I did dislocate my knee a couple times (Very painful. I don't recommend it) I read constantly, everything by Grisham, Stephen King, Dean Koontz and a few others. Always on the lookout for knew authors to get attached to. I've been reading the classics, Jane Austen, Dickens, Shakespeare (My God! who reads Shakespeare for pleasure?). I don't want to come across as trying to appear intellectual. I read the classics sparingly, mostly it's the popular stuff like Harry Potter. I watch at least 200 movies a year (about half at the theater the other half on DVD), plus re-watch who knows how many. There are a number of actors I follow and make it a point to see everything they do. And again, I'm always on the lookout for new talent. I saw the movie "The Bucket List" about a year ago and it started me thinking about what I want to accomplish before I die. I find my bucket list is fairly small. I've already done most of what I wanted to do (marriage, home, children, job). I never was one to want to cure cancer or climb Mount Everest. I don't want to be famous (although I wouldn't mind being rich). I find I have very little ambition left. Make sufficient money to live and retire comfortably, travel to Alaska, see the aurora borealis. That's pretty much about it. I've traveled some. Been to Hawaii twice, the Grand Canyon twice (hiked to the bottom and back). I've seen Old Faithful erupt, Devils Tower, Mo...Expand for more